Introduction

In today's media driven age, we are surrounded by audio visual content like pictures, video clips, sounds, etc. And yes, we all like to insert
them into our Powerpoint presentations, resulting in huge file sizes. Products like PPTminimizer provide a solution to this problem -- and I have
reviewed this product in the past.

PPTminimizer's new version 3 is a much improved version that has been just launched.

Download and Installation

Download the installer from the link given above, run the setup routine and follow the instructions. You'll end up with an PPTminimizer program
group in your Windows Start menu, as shown in Figure 1 below.

Figure 1: The PPTminimizer Start Menu Group

When you run it for the first time it will ask for your registration details (the serial number) -- alternatively, you can run the product
in evaluation mode that allows you to do 12 free optimizations.

A. Toolbar

Here you will find options to open, optimize, or search presentations.

B. Presentations to Optimize

Shows the list of opened presentation(s), which need to be optimized.

C. Optimized Presentations

The optimized presentations can be seen here. To save the optimized presentations in a particular
folder, choose the Save optimized presentation in folder option.

D. Custom Compression

Activate the check box and click the Settings button, which opens Custom CompressionSettings dialog box as shown in Figure 3 -- by tweaking parameters like setting the screen resolution and JPEG quality,
you can get the best compression value.

Figure 3: Custom Compression Settings

E. Sidebar

The tabs at the left side of the interface replicate the options
available on the toolbar.

The Enterprise Version

PPTminimizer Enterprise version is a server-capable version with the following features:

The Search Assistant option not only searches presentations to be optimized on local drives, but also servers and networks.

The Optimize and Replace functions replace the original presentations with newly optimized copiess, storage space can be attained by replacing
unnecessarily large original presentations with new optimized ones.

Conclusion

Star Wars Style Credits Animation

The Star Wars Style Credits Animation presentation includes a sample slide in which the credits animate in the Star Wars style. You can
download this presentation and change the text in the animated text boxes as required.